Category Archives: Data Privacy

Colloquy Sixty-five percent of adult consumers are unlikely to do business again with companies after a financial data breach, according to a global research survey from Baltimore-based data protection company SafeNet. The survey, which queried more than 4,500 adults from the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan and Australia, illustrated the effect that data breaches

By Rich Rezler, Smart Data Collective Hold Security, a firm credited with uncovering significant data breaches – such as the one at Adobe Systems in October 2013 – has uncovered a record-breaking hack of 1.2 billion username and passwords from multiple websites. From the Hold Security website: After more than seven months of research, Hold

By Josh Taylor @joshgnosis, ZDNet Attorney-General George Brandis confirmed that the Federal Cabinet today gave in principle support for a new regime that would force telecommunications companies to retain an as-yet-undetermined amount of customer data for up to two years to allow government agencies to access without a warrant as part of law enforcement investigations.

By Anina Steele, DigitalJournal.com 65 percent of adult consumers unlikely to do business again with companies after financial data breach Data breaches have a significant impact on whether a customer will interact with an organization again, according to new research from SafeNet, Inc., a global leader in data protection solutions. The global research surveyed over

By Juha Saarinen, Allie Coyne – itnews Updated: Over 600,000 customer records captured. Fast food giant Domino’s Pizza has been held to ransom for €30,000 (A$43,500) after hackers stole over 600,000 customer details from a legacy platform used by the company’s European operations. A group named Rex Mundi last week claimed to have breached

By Dan Jerker B. Svantesson, The Conversation With the amendments to Australia’s privacy law coming into force, it is only natural that our attention is firmly focused on the domestic privacy scene at the moment. However, perhaps the bigger challenge for Australian businesses will come from abroad. With a slow but steady pace, the European

“The rapidly shifting consumer attitudes to data privacy should be ringing alarm bells in the board room of every business that’s not involved with one-to-one communications” Chris Combemale, Chief Executive, DMA

PRESS RELEASE, The Wall Street Journal Research from SDL shows consumers are concerned about the use of personal data, but yet are not taking advantage of opt-out technologies MAIDENHEAD, United Kingdom & WAKEFIELD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–February 26, 2014– A majority of consumers worry about how marketers use their personal data, but 79 percent are more likely

By Patrick Budmar, @patrick_budmar – ARN Security vendor also finds users are proactive about removing suspicious applications Symantec has found more than three out of four Australia (78 per cent) are more concerned about their online privacy now than five years ago. The result comes the way of the security vendor’s Privacy Survey, which uncovered

By Paris Cowan – itNEWS Commissioner releases final guidelines. The Office of the Australian Information Commission (OAIC) has confirmed it won’t hold organisations accountable for the exposure of personal information when accessed via a cyber attack, as long as the Office is satisfied with the level of security in place within the targeted systems. New